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Sublette and Amboy’s fire departments responded around 4 p.m. Thursday to reports of a structure fire at Woodhaven Lakes, according to a Facebook post.

According to Mendota police, Jonas W. Hobbs, 45, was injured when the pickup he was driving crashed through a guard rail at 12th Street and Augustine Avenue and ultimately came to rest on its driver’s side in a creek.

Centennial, quasquicentennial, sesquicentennial, bicentennial, dosquicentennial - Lee County can observe all of them in 2024.

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Firefighters were able to use rescue tubes to get the victim free, with farm vehicles stationed nearby just in case they needed to drain the corn from the bin.

Taxes are payable in two installments due on June 28 and Sept. 6, 2024.

The three departments will receive grants up to $26,000 each for the purchase of small firefighting and ambulance equipment.

At 6:37 p.m. Tuesday, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated heavy rainfall continuing across portions of southeastern Lee and southern DeKalb counties, with rainfall rates up to 1-2 inches per hour.

The former accounting administrator for the Woodhaven Lakes resort in Sublette was sentenced Tuesday.

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The former accounting administrator for Woodhaven Lakes in Sublette will be sentenced Jan. 17 for embezzling more than $300,000 from the lakeside resort.

The lighted parade will begin at at 6:30 p.m.

Sublette’s annual Christmas in the Village celebration will be 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3.

Anthony W. Barna, 27, of Bridgeview, was pronounced dead at the scene of the one-vehicle crash on Tower Road near its intersection with Green Wing Road.

A van carrying four adults and 10 juveniles rolled over on Interstate 39 near Troy Grove on Saturday night, sending all occupants to area hospitals.

9/11 ceremony carried out Saturday on Sauk Valley Community College grounds

Sublette’s “Hops n’ Harmony” event, which was held Saturday, Sept. 2 in Centennial Park, featured live music and beer tastings.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced 8,209 dean’s list students for the 2023 spring semester.

“Community Together in Unity, Remembering the 22nd Anniversary of 9/11″ will begin at 10 a.m. at Sauk Valley Community College.

Angela Bowman, of Sublette, won one of the most coveted prizes in Northern Illinois – the Amboy Depot Days 50/50.

Arrests made Sunday after the Lee County Sheriff’s Office received information that there was an underage drinking party occurring in the area of Carter Road and Todd Road in southern Lee County.

Bee Happy Hour will be in large cities across the Midwest, as well as, the village of Sublette

Sublette’s Deb Schultz was recently awarded the 2023 Outstanding Business Woman of the Year at the IL Agri-Women annual meeting.

Two people were killed and another injured around 3 p.m. Saturday in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of La Moille and Maytown roads, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a new release Sunday.

Dinges Fire Company awarded college students Lauren Tarr and Ashton Eisenberg of Amboy $1,000 in scholarships at the 15th annual Dinges Fire Company Golf Outing, held Aug. 26 at Shady Oaks Country Club in Sublette.

Sublette will host an evening of car talk and tire kicking.

The annual Sublette One Day Tractor Drive is scheduled 8 a.m. to about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, at Centennial Park.

The theft of cash from Woodhaven Lakes, initially thought to be around $50,000, now is pegged at $333,046.

An Amboy woman is free on her own recognizance after being charged with stealing cash from the Woodhaven Association at Woodhaven Lakes in Sublette.

Sublette man faced charges on six counts.

Sublette man will provide a look back at shaving company's roadside signs.

The offer of a rent-free period to get established is filling Northland Mall in Sterling nearly to capacity, with the latest businesses to take advantage including a family-friendly arcade, an urban streetware clothing store and a beauty supply shop.

Santa and tree lighting will be part of Christmas in the Village in Sublette

Sublette native Loreen Mead's work can be seen in American Legion Park

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The American Red Cross is teaming up with IndyCar to urge people to help keep the blood supply on track by donating blood or platelets

Two Sublette men are being lauded today for saving a 5-year-old hearing-impaired boy from a burning house.

Grace Klein of Sublette, a senior at Illinois State University, caught a 37 1/4-inch, 17.5-pound northern pike March 5 on Lake Onalaska in LaCrosse, Wisconsin